Ghosts of France's colonial past.

The man who introduced reinforced concrete to the world demonstrated its genius by using it to build his own house.

César Baldaccini's iconic sculpture of a 40-foot thumb stands tall in La Défense.

Experience architect Le Corbusier's modernist design for living in the home he designed for himself.

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.